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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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